17 April 2014. Pests at the Royal Court

It would be difficult to forget this play. The story, set and characters each etch themselves in one's memory. The story is of two sisters bound together in dysfuntion, the younger one pregnant and trying to get off drugs and go straight, the elder determined not to let her go; both carrying a history of abuse. The story, depressingly, is based on the writer's research amongst prisoners and so cannot be dismissed as inauthentic. They talk in their own version of 'street'. The set features the elder sister's Tracy Emin installation. There is plenty of language and a rather Sloany girl in the front row bolted at the end, presumably back to a more comfortable world.